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Icelandic is an Indo-European language and belongs to the North Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Icelandic is further classified as a West Scandinavian language. Icelandic is derived from an earlier language Old Norse, which later became Old Icelandic and currently Modern Icelandic. The division between old and modern Icelandic is said ...
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Bahasa Islandia ( íslenska) adalah bahasa yang dipertuturkan di Islandia. Bahasa ini merupakan sebuah bahasa dari rumpun bahasa Jermanik Utara yang paling arkais. Bahasa ini tidak banyak berbeda dengan bahasa Nordik Kuno. Kerabat terdekat bahasa Islandia adalah bahasa Faroe yang dituturkan orang Faroe . Sistem penulisan[sunting | sunting sumber]
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SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Icelandic ( / aɪsˈlændɪk / ⓘ eyess-LAN-dik; endonym: íslenska, pronounced [ ˈistlɛnska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. Since it is a West Scandinavian language, it ...
Old Icelandic, usually called Old Norse, is the language in which the Edda s, sagas, and skaldic poems were written in the Middle Ages. By the time these works were written, several dialectal characteristics that differentiate Icelandic from Norwegian had emerged.
Icelandic is the language spoken by the people of Iceland . It is a Germanic language. It comes from the Old Norse language, the language spoken by the Vikings. Because Iceland is far away from other countries, the language has not changed much.
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Iceland's official written and spoken language is Icelandic, a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse.
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The history of the Icelandic language began in the 9th century when the settlement of Iceland, mostly by Norwegians, brought a dialect of Old Norse to the island. The oldest preserved texts in Icelandic were written around 1100, the oldest single text being Íslendingabók followed by Landnámabók.
